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Yann Martel has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate…
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A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly,…
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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others.…
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Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few…
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A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them…
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the…
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from…
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My zoology thesis was a functional analysis of the thyroid gland of the three-toed sloth. I chose the sloth because its demeanour…
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Sometimes I got my majors mixed up. A number of my fellow religious-studies students - muddled agnostics who didn't know which way…
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When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human,…
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It is a vast country, so that inspires you. It's also the greatest hotel on earth: It welcomes people from everywhere. It's…
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Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.…
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I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.
— Ray Bradbury
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can…
— John Donne
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I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I…
— Vera-Ellen
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Education has two aspects; the first is related to external and worldly education, which is nothing but acquiring bookish knowledge. In the…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand…
— C W Ceram
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Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
— Samuel Johnson
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I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other…
— Piper Perabo
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the…
— John Cowper Powys
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There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a…
— Raj Patel
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Rather than seek to be squired and dated by their rivals why should it not be possible for women to find relaxation…
— Germaine Greer
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
— Richard Rorty
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I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead,…
— Natalie Merchant
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